Rocket Boys - October Sky

Homer H. Hickam, Jr.

Delta Publishing

1998

448 páginas

14h 56m

ISBN-10: 0385333218

'Rocket Boys' is an American memoir - a story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space and who made those dreams come true. With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible, even in a company town that swallowed its men alive. A story of romance and loss, of growing up and getting out, Homer Hickam's lush, lyrical memoir is a chronicle of triumph - at once exquisitely written and marvelously entertaining. Now with 8 pages of photographs.